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01 Our Values

Tender

We’re here because we’ve been there, so we can’t help but to be wholeheartedly invested in your journey. We want to provide you the warmth, validation and affirmation that can feel so rare in adulthood. Working with us will challenge you, but it will also feel like coming home.

Liberating

We’re fired up about your freedom and fight for it alongside you. Always intersectional, pleasure-positive, and identity-celebrating, we have a low tolerance for boxes, assumptions, and systems that stifle your creative healing. We are your unashamed and unapologetic accomplices in doing life-changing, culture-shifting work.

Community Cultivated

We’re obsessed with staying up-to-date on affirming, anti-oppressive language and concepts, and think learning directly from queer Black folks, Indigenous folks, and community leaders of color is just as important as gathering data from research. We believe in the transformative power of accurate information about sex, gender and relationships.

02 Our Team

We are pleasure activists, disruptors, innovators, and creatives. While we are technically a business, we operate more as a movement. Meet our team of therapists, coaches, and educators.

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Evelyn, a biracial Latina person with olive-toned skin, medium length wavy brown hair, and brown eyes stands and smiles without showing teeth in front of a brick building. She is wearing a bright purple shirt and gold hoop earrings.

Evelyn Pechous, AMFT

(She/Her)

Staff Therapist, Office Coordinator

Evelyn is a queer, biracial Latina, who values and understands the importance of understanding, exploring, and centering our identities. Understanding the resiliencies and strengths of her family through storytelling has enabled her to reflect on the way we all experience courage.

Evelyn was first drawn to mental health as a community organizer, uplifting community leaders to change systemic barriers through storytelling. She incorporates the importance of stories through a narrative therapy approach, and believes that you are the expert of your own story. Her hope is to work together to identify what narratives deserve to hold space in your story.

Therapist Identities

  • Disabled
  • First Generation
  • Latinx
  • Queer

Client Concerns or Identities

  • Anxiety
  • Asexual
  • Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain
  • Couples/Relationships
  • Depression
  • Disabled
  • Eating Disorders
  • Fat
  • First Generation/Immigrant
  • Identity Exploration
  • Kinky
  • Non-Binary
  • Non-Monogamy
  • Offers Sessions in Spanish
  • Queer
  • Sex Therapy
  • Sex Workers
  • Spirituality
  • Transgender
  • Trauma

Therapy Types

  • Anti-Oppressive
  • Decolonizing
  • Narrative
  • Relational
  • Systems
  • Trauma-Informed

“Queer not as being about who you are having sex with, but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”

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03 Our Offerings

Individual Therapy & Coaching

Work one-on-one with a provider to expand your self-awareness, heal from previous trauma, and develop strategies for thriving. Through a non-judgmental, intersectional lens, our providers will work with you on concerns and resiliencies related to your identities, mental health, relationships, career and beyond.

Relationship Therapy & Coaching

Couples and triadic+ relationships come to TEG both to move through relationship crises and for general relationship maintenance. We work with relationships curious about non-monogamy, working through infidelity, exploring new identities, coming to terms with loss or transition, family-planning, and expanding their sex lives. We approach relationship therapy through a kink, BDSM, non-monogamy, and queer-affirming lens.

Support Groups

TEG Clinicians often a range of support groups that run at different times of the year - email hello@theexpansivegroup.com for information about the groups we are currently running.

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Pleasure Mentoring

Offered by the one and only Kiana Lewis, Pleasure Mentoring focuses on developing your understanding of sensuality and cultivating a practice with your erotic self. Different from therapy, Pleasure Mentoring offers more short-term, hands on guidance. Kiana uses modalities including movement, visualization, writing, and vocalization to help you unearth your most pleasure-filled life. For Pleasure Mentoring, email kiana@theexpansivegroup.com

04 FAQs

Expansive Community

Your soft place to land.

Gather and connect with other folks, build community, and exchange ideas around the expansiveness of gender, sexuality, pleasure, and relationships.Expansive Community is for folks 18+ who are: queer, trans, pleasure-positive, curious, exploring, sex nerds, therapists, educators, aspiring therapists, and more...

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05 Reach Out

Complete the form below to be connected a therapist, coach or pleasure mentor. If you are seeking consulting services, inquiring about career opportunities, or looking for a speaker, email hello@theexpansivegroup.com. 

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Our In-Person Office

While we work virtually with clients all over the world, we have an in-person option available to our clients in the Chicago area. Located on a beautiful tree-lined street in Ravenswood/Lincoln Square, we have four gorgeous offices with natural lighting, interior brick, and a unique design inspired by queerness, Black artists, Indigenous artists, and artists of color.

Please indicate on your intake form if you’d like to see your provider in person.